Stocking.



No. 759.184. PATBNTED MAY 3, 1904. R. MEYER.

STUGKING.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 4, 1904.

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UNITED STATES Patented May 3, 1904.

ROBERT MEYER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

STOCKINGQ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,184,dated May 3, 1904.

Application led February 4, 1904:.

To all Lohan/t t may concern:

Be it known that LROBEET MEYER,a citizen of the United States, residingat Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Stockings, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hosiery, and has for its object to provide astocking having a portion of its foot formed of white or undyed yarn andhaving its leg portion dyed any olesired color, said effect beingproduced after the stocking has been knit in one color. Heretoforestockings have been produced having this contrasted foot-and-leg effect,known as split-sole and white-foot stockings; but the same have beenproduced by forming or knitting' the stockings of yarns of the twodifferent colors, a method of manufacture considerably more expensivethan that of knitting the stockings of yarn of one color, and it is toobviate this enhanced cost and to produce stockings of the cheapergrades having the split-sole or white-foot effect that my invention isdirected. rlhis object I accomplish in the manner and bythe meanshereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing', in which the iigure is a view of a stockingembodying my invention.

The said stocking is first knit from yarn of one color, preferably whiteor undyed yarn, and then has that portion of its foot l that it isdesired to retain in the original color inclosed in any suitableprotecting device-such as a clamp that will exclude moisture. Thestocking so protected is then subjected to the action of the dye that itis desired to color the leg portion 2, whereby said leg portion and, in

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fact, all the unprotected portion of the same 'will receive the dye,only that portion protected by the clamp remaining unaiected.

It will be readily understood that whereas in a stocking formed with awhite foot or split sole by knitting the same of yarns of differentcolors the line of demarcation between the colors must follow the waleof stitch of the fabric. A stocking dyed in the abovedescribed manner,on the other hand, will present no such characteristic, the line of thedye 3 following the edge of the clamping device irrespective of the Waleof stitch.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A stocking having its leg portion and the upper portion of its footdyed, and the rest of its foot of contrasting color, the line betweenthe two portions being independent of the Wale of the stitch of thefabric.

2. A stocking having its leg portion and the upper portion of its footdyed, and the rest of its foot undyed, the line between the two portionsbeing independent of the wale of the stitch of the fabric.

3. A stocking knitted of yarn of one color, and having its leg portionand the upper portion of its `foot dyed, and the rest of its foot ofcontrasting' color, the line between the two portions being independentof the Wale of the stitch of the fabric.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 759,184,granted May 3, 1904,

upon the application of Robert Meyer, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, foran improveu ment in Stookings, errors appear in the printedspecification requiring correction,

as follows: In line 48, a comma should be substituted for the periodafter the Word fabric and the following article A should be a small a,instead of a Capital and that the said Letters Patent should be readwith these corrections therein that the same may conform to the recordof the ease in the Patent Oiiioe.

Signed and sealed this 10th day of May, A. D., 1904.

[SEAL] E. B. MOORE,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

